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Curating Developer Experience: Practical Insights from Building a Platform Team

As a platform engineer, how do you help your customers go quicker, which aspects of developer experience should you care about and what do you actually do to curate an experience for them? This article is about curating a developer experience, it shares experiences and learnings from implementing DevEx and ideas on what platform engineers can do for development teams that use platforms.

Andy Burgin
on Sep 19, 2024
DevOps

Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with a Little Help from AI

Michael Friedrich is exploring how teams face varying levels of inefficiency in their DevSecOps processes, hindering progress and innovation. He highlights common issues like excessive debugging time and inefficient workflows, while also demonstrating how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a powerful tool to streamline these processes and boost efficiency.

Michael Friedrich
on Sep 04, 2024
Culture & Methods

Simplicity, Speed, and Re-Use. Shipping Threads in 5 Months

In Jan 2023, we received word that we’d need to build a microblogging service to compete with Twitter in a couple of months. A small team was assembled to take on that challenge, and we shipped a new social network in July. This article describes how we developed and launched the Threads app at Meta last year.

Zahan Malkani
on Aug 19, 2024
Architecture & Design

Thinking Like an Architect

By explaining the roles of an architect and the concept of connecting levels, Gregor Hohpe delves into the importance of metaphors for making complex technical concepts more relatable and sketches for abstracting and capturing the essence of complex systems.

Gregor Hohpe
on Jul 29, 2024
Architecture & Design

Scaling Challenges: Productivity, Cost Efficiency, and Microservice Management

The main objective of this article is to delve into the technical complexities and strategic adjustments undertaken by Trainline. By examining challenges such as managing peak transaction volumes and orchestrating microservice architectures, we aim to uncover the valuable lessons learned and insights gained from Trainline's journey through the dynamic landscape of digital transportation platforms.

Milena Nikolic
on Jul 22, 2024
Architecture & Design

Are You Done Yet? Mastering Long-Running Processes in Modern Architectures

In this article, Bernd Ruecker explores the importance of long-running processes in various applications, particularly in distributed systems. He emphasizes the value of asynchronous communication and explores strategies like Centers of Excellence, along with visual tools like BPMN for enhancing communication and understanding. The contents of this article were presented during QCon London 2024.

Bernd Ruecker
on Jul 15, 2024
Architecture & Design

How to Architect Software for a Greener Future

In this article, Sara Bergman shares tips, tricks, and advice on architecting software for a greener future. Bergman has been discussing this topic for several years.

Sara Bergman
on Jul 08, 2024
AI, ML & Data Engineering

The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized

Large language models have significantly transformed the field of artificial intelligence. The fundamental innovation behind this change is surprisingly straightforward: make the models a lot bigger. With each new iteration, the capabilities of these models expand, prompting a critical question: are we moving toward a black box era where AI is controlled by a few tech monopolies?

Daniel Dominguez
on Jul 03, 2024
Architecture & Design

The Set Piece Strategy: Tackling Complexity in Serverless Applications

In this article, senior engineering manager and AWS Serverless hero Sheen Brisals examines how the characteristics of serverless such as optimization, robust availability and scalability influence us to think in a new way of architecting and evolving modern applications as set pieces, a concept from moviemaking. The contents of this article were presented during QCon London 2024.

Sheen Brisals
on Jul 02, 2024
Culture & Methods

Platform as a Runtime - the Next Step in Platform Engineering

As systems become larger and more complex we need to take the concepts of platform engineering to a higher level – to the code level – by creating platforms and abstractions that will reduce cognitive load, help simplify and accelerate software development, and allow for easy maintenance and upgrades to the platform. Let’s move from “platform” to “Platform as a Runtime”.

Aviran Mordo
on Jun 28, 2024
Culture & Methods

Delivering Great Developer Experiences with Platform Engineering

Companies increasingly turn to platform engineering to help scale their development teams and increase developer experience for engineer efficiency. In this virtual panel, we’ll discuss how teams build platforms, set others up for success, work with developers who use their platform, measure their progress, and adapt to new challenges.

Ben Linders Aviran Mordo Jemma Hussein Allen Ana Petkovska Andy Burgin
on Jun 12, 2024
Culture & Methods

Accelerating Technical Decision-Making by Empowering ICs with Engineering Strategy

Carta harnesses the power of a small group of senior engineers called navigators to bridge the gap between global strategy and local decision-making, using a written engineering strategy. Navigators replace a need for consensus and boost velocity by combining technical context, domain context, strategic alignment, and judgment to make engineering decisions quickly.

Dan Fike Shawna Martell
on May 22, 2024